Haritosh SrivastavFounder & Head Coach, Confident Storytelling Hub

The Biggest Mistake in Storytelling Are You Guilty

28 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Haritosh Srivastav. This content was uploaded by Haritosh Srivastav. This is a YouTube video titled "The Biggest Mistake in Storytelling Are You Guilty" (published March 28, 2024). The excerpt is a spoken segment in which a single speaker discusses common storytelling errors—most notably telling the story you want to tell instead of the story the audience needs—illustrated with the analogy of an uncle who repeats the same holiday story. The content appears to be an advice/talk on improving storytelling and audience focus.

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What are some of those mistakes that you have seen people make? I would be probably a little softer on the mistakes because I still make them. So let me start there. I made the first one that I'm going to tell you. I made this mistake myself. The biggest mistake that we make most often is that we're telling the story that we want to tell and not the story that the audience needs. And this is almost like your uncle that is at the holiday table that is telling the same story over and over and over. It doesn't even really matter if you're there because he's not telling the story for you. He's telling the story for them.